.357 Magnum recommendations?
Time to update my ammo. I see Doc has suggested Winchester Partition S357P 180gr JHP load. That load is nowhere to be found with threads referencing it having been discontinued. My 357's range from 2.25-4" in barrel length. What other loads test well?
Thanks
Hizzie
*RS Regulate Affiliate*Originally Posted by caleb
The forthcoming Hornady Critical Duty should be a good round
Hornady XTP is painful........which usually means good on the other side.
Just a Hairy Special Snowflake supply clerk with no field experience, shooting an Asymetric carbine as a Try Hard
"If I had a grandpa, he would look like Delbert Belton".
125 or 158?Hornady XTP is painful........which usually means good on the other side.
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Most of the old school 140-158gr JHPs work rather well. The Silvertip in .357mag was a really decent loading. The Critical Defense ain't bad.
125's. The XTP's are serious in the velocity department, and I have found that whatever they are using for powder has almost no flash in both .357 and .44 MAG.
The XTP's are my outdoors/woods loads. For city stuff, I like the Speer Gold Dots. I am using the +P .38's in my 65 and the 200 gr. .44 Special in my 296 and snub 629's.
Just a Hairy Special Snowflake supply clerk with no field experience, shooting an Asymetric carbine as a Try Hard
"If I had a grandpa, he would look like Delbert Belton".
Some info from Winchester;
Symbol Description MV FPS
"Bare Gelatin" "Heavy Cloth Wallboard Plywood Steel Autoglass
X357SHP 357 Mag 145 STHP 1290
Penetration 15.3 16.4 18.7 18.2 16.9 15.9
Expansion 0.55 0.58 0.57 0.45 0.56
Ret Wt. % 87 73 98 97 95 81
Ret Wt. Gr. 126 106 142 140 138 117
X3574P 357 Mag 158 JHP 1048
4" Barrel Penetration 17 17.7 17.5 18.2 13.9 11.4
686 S&W Expansion 0.53 0.48 0.45 0.44 0.53 0.681
Ret Wt. % 99 99 100 98 96 83
Ret Wt. Gr. 157 156 158 155 152 131.2
X3576P 357 Mag 125 JHP 1450
Penetration 10.7 12.3
Expansion 0.53 0.54
Ret Wt. % 74 79
Ret Wt. Gr. 93 99
Yes. At 145 grains, it somewhat split the difference between the heavy-recoiling 158s and the blind-and-deafen-you 125s.
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^^^I've also found that 145 ST shoots to POA in my K-frames, FWIW.
I see Federal has a round loaded with the 140 grain Barnes Expander, listed as a medium game hunting round. I wonder how it would work for SD from CC handguns?
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